Last Wednesday, Kevin Hardy walked out of his Indianapolis home, stole a neighbor`s car at gunpoint and drove north toward Chicago. Left behind was the electronic monitoring equipment installed to ...

Garfield County Inmate Programs Volunteer Coordinator Charlie Pearce is looking for volunteers to serve Garfield County and its inmates, according to a news release. The program was started in July ...

Already faced with a dwindling federal workforce, California is preparing to shut down one of its main training facilities for inmate firefighters as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reduce the ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC ) — According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 95 percent of people in jail will return to the community. However, according to a 2017 RAND Corporation study, inmates ...

Although perhaps satisfying people running the criminal-justice system, programs to improve the self-esteem, creative abilities or physical condition of inmates do little to keep them from committing ...

Programs to help inmates at the Blair County Prison prepare for release have been nonexistent for the past year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that is beginning to change, according to a deputy ...

Gov. Rick Scott has done it again. He decimated the education budget, though he is taking credit for enhancing it. Now he and the Florida House have cut programs from the Department of Corrections, ...

Already faced with a dwindling federal workforce, California is preparing to shut down one of its main training facilities for inmate firefighters as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reduce the ...

Increased efforts by California to change the behavior of prison inmates have not reduced the rate at which ex-convicts commit new crimes, state auditors reported Thursday. The assessment relied on ...

The White House plan announced last week to award federal education funding to prison inmates spotlighted a population that is often an afterthought in the national discussion on college access. More ...